A BIG SEA WALL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 570, 27 July 1909, Page 7

A BIG SEA WALL.

OVER 1200 FEET TO BE CONSTRUCTED. TO OVERLAP PIPITEA POINT. It was armouncod Jsetweok that, Mr. C JP. Puiloy's tender for liio constructioa of an. extension of the training . wall, at 'Waterloo' Quay had been accepted, and that the contract price was £35,610 7s, This is one of the biggest.contracts of tiio kiud ever let in Wellington, mi it immediately concerns tho growth of ( the city (tho wall being.part of a further scheme of reclamation in .continviatiion. of the pr«9fln-t;one α-t AVa-terloo Quay). To gain some idea of the work, aPojnmoN reporter waited on Mr. O, 1 , . oontradtor, who.afforded the fullest information as-to tlio nature and extent of-tihe work about to bo commenced, llio present training- wall ends about 100 yards (approximately) to the north of too now King's, Wharf. That wall is now to bo continued due north in tihe present lino for 374 feet, when it turns in towards Kaiwarra, pursuing & straight line for no less a distance than 928 feet. This carries tlhe wall to i a point aliont half-way between, Pdpitea Point and. tho Thomdom Baths, at a distance ofabout 680 feet furtW , out in. the harbour. The greatest .'depth, is at-'the angle of the extension, where tiere is 27 feet of water at. low tide. Aβ the-wall gets further into tho Kawarra Bight (off the . southorn end at ,Thonidon Esplanade) the water gradually sb.allo.wß to about 20 feet in places, so- that t/lib construction'of the wall presents no especial ; difficulties. Tlio: base of the wall will be 16 feet broad on the solid, tapering in fliiree off-sets to ' 2 feet 9 inobes-at the top-r-the wnolo of which is to consist of solid concrete. ;■; : -. : ' ■• ■ -. ■' • _ . '.: In addition to the wall there are two big qnlrerts of concrete to be'constructed. That fronv Waterloo Quay .wjll be 878 'feet ' in length', and will haVe ah opening 6 feeV 6 inche? by 4 foot 6 inohns, Tho qasing pf concrete will'be 2'feet 3 inohes on tie bottom, 2' feet on the sides, ; . and ; 13 inchos on top (the latter being reinforced wjtli mild steel bars). 'The Davis Street cnlrert is to be continued by Mr; Pulley for 459 feet (oponing 4 feet' 3 inches by.2 feet 6 inches) at'tho eaid of .which it intersects the ono from Waterloo Quay, when both, are continued as one to the outer wall,- This $eottari'of tho q'ulvort will iave:an opening 8 feet 6 inches by 5 feet; This great, pipe will have a'floor of concrete 2 feet 6 inohos in thiokness, eidee 2. feet, and top 17 inches, in 'thickness, strengthened witb. embedded bars of niild steel. .; '/ ■ .■'

Mr, Pulley has lost no time irf making a start with his big contraot;. Hβ Has already erected a smithy, workshop] gear rfied, anq officep," and • frame s ~of a. large building,wliere .tJie- cement is: to; bo stored; and' the' concrete, mkor .(from Anderson's, Ohrist: church), and pumping machinery are ; to be erected. Mr.. Pulley believes in elecferioity, and everything that ban' be driven by po-wer will be connected with a dynamo, as was'the Case in, tihe King's Wharf, contract, . Al-ready,'-too,': a double line of piles has been driven,' which ; aTe to take a line of rails, on; which the' concretD : will-be conveyed, from the.mixer to the /In the , construotion of the wall:3000 tons of Auokland cement, and 17,000 yarda of .Hutt River .shingle wiH bo-used; and Mr. states that every-: thing to be used on the job, with the except tion .; of the steel' bars for reijiforoement and the wiro nails, will be obtained in the Do-. work con-, eludes on December 31, 1010,' ; : V ; .